Yesterday, I broke a story about how the timing of Ramadan this year clashed with summer GCSE and A level exams in English schools. In doing so, I opened Pandora’s Box.
There had long been plans to move some exams so they took place before the Muslim period of fasting, prayer and charitable giving which this year begins on 6 June and schedule others in the morning to make them easier for fasting teenagers. But the news only emerged after it was raised by MPs during a parliamentary grilling of the children’s commissioner Anne Longfield.
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